New Zealand Gazette – 1915 – No. 118

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✨ Bank Financial Statements

STATEMENT of the LIABILITIES and Assets of the undermentioned Banks in the DOMINION of NEW ZEALAND for the QUARTER ended 30th SEPTEMBER, 1915.

LIABILITIES.

BANKS.	Notes	Bills	Balances due	Deposits.	Total Liabilities.
	in Circulation.	in Circulation.	to other Banks.
	£ s. d.	£ s. d.	£ s. d.	Government.	Not bearing Interest.
Bank of New Zealand	1,606,909 15 9	58,777 17 6	15,227 8 11	2,587,207 10 8	8,278,740 16 1
Union Bank of Australia, Limited	246,945 0 0	13,706 0 0	5,663 0 0	2,441,140 0 0	1,440,803 0 0
Bank of New South Wales	274,949 10 0	6,716 10 7	11,429 6 4	2,156,485 15 3	1,794,295 17 8
Bank of Australasia	217,660 13 10	13,192 11 3	16,257 0 0	115 7 8	1,796,707 7 8
National Bank of New Zealand, Limited	445,345 0 0	6,352 0 0	...	...	2,735,848 0 0
The Commercial Bank of Australia, Limited	30,998 11 6	1,559 9 0	...	...	136,941 9 7
Totals	2,822,808 11 1	100,304 8 4	48,576 15 3	2,587,373 18 4	17,541,863 8 7

ASSETS.

BANKS.	Coined Gold and Silver and other Coined Metals.	Gold and Silver in Bullion or Bars.	Notes and Bills of other Banks.	Balances due from other Banks.	Landed Property.	Notes and Bills discounted.	Colonial Government Securities.	Other Funded Securities.	Debts due to Bank, exclusive of Debts abandoned as bad.	Securities not included under other Heads.	Total Assets.
	£ s. d.	£ s. d.	£ s. d.	£ s. d.	£ s. d.	£ s. d.	£ s. d.	£ s. d.	£ s. d.	£ s. d.
Bank of New Zealand	3,233,490 7 9	112,090 10 8	136,919 14 10	2,992 8 11	155,528 6 11	743,870 17 1	1665,205 0 0	...	9,012,221 1 5	505,624 12 5	14,567,943 0 0
Union Bank of Australia, Limited	895,224 0 0	1,034 0 0	53,906 0 0	1,474 0 0	51,600 0 0	133,364 0 0	...	...	4,031,905 0 0	87,027 0 0	5,255,534 0 0
Bank of New South Wales	680,720 14 5	12,803 6 8	4,742 7 8	40,884 8 8	137,120 3 8	98,087 4 8	167,705 19 0	...	2,863,640 15 0	99,187 13 7	4,104,892 13 4
Bank of Australasia	570,765 11 9	603 1 5	35,631 3 1	...	16,275 5 9	159,538 13 9	...	...	2,887,987 9 3	5,079 7 11	3,675,880 12 11
National Bank of New Zealand, Limited	1,109,914 0 0	316,331 0 0	65,514 0 0	269,350 0 0	162,730 0 0	216,264 0 0	40,000 0 0	...	3,096,161 0 0	10,862 0 0	5,287,126 0 0
Commercial Bank of Australia, Limited	70,012 9 0	...	9,960 9 10	...	49,500 0 0	6,558 2 3	...	...	99,306 18 2	123 5 0	235,461 4 3
Totals	6,560,127 2 11	442,861 18 9	306,673 15 5	314,700 17 7	572,753 16 4	1,357,682 17 9	872,910 19 0	...	21,991,222 3 10	707,903 18 11	33,126,837 10 6

CAPITAL AND PROFITS.

BANKS.	Capital paid up.	Rate per Annum of Last Dividend.	Amount of Last Dividend declared.	Amount of Reserved Profits at Time of declaring such Dividend.
	£		£ s. d.	£ s. d.
Bank of New Zealand—
4-per-cent. stock guaranteed by the Government of N.Z.	529,988	...	2,057,170 0 0	2,057,170 0 0
"A" Preference shares issued to the Crown under Bank of New Zealand Act, 1903	500,000	On "A" Preference shares, ten per cent. per annum.	87,500 0 0	...
"B" Preference shares issued to the Crown under Bank of New Zealand Act, 1913	250,000	On "B" Preference shares and ordinary shares (twelve per cent. per annum, and bonus three per cent. per annum on ordinary shares), fifteen per cent. per annum	141,959 0 0	...
Ordinary shares	992,295		...	...
Union Bank of Australia, Limited	2,000,000	Ten per cent. per annum, and two per cent. bonus for half-year, together equal to fourteen per cent. per annum	140,000 0 0	2,170,509 0 0
Bank of New South Wales	3,500,000	Ten per cent. per annum	175,000 0 0	2,550,000 0 0
Bank of Australasia	2,000,000	Fourteen per cent. per annum, and bonus twelve shillings per share, equal seventeen per cent. per annum	170,000 0 0	2,863,000 0 0
National Bank of New Zealand, Limited	750,000	Twelve per cent. per annum for half-year and one per cent. bonus	52,500 0 0	789,580 0 0
Commercial Bank of Australia, Limited—
Ordinary	95,659		...	...
Preference	2,117,350	Four per cent. per annum (preference only)	42,347 0 0	9,575 17 7